VIDEO: East Texas parole officer gets prison for porn

(AP) — An East Texas parole officer has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for using his state-owned computer to view child pornography.

Prosecutors in Tyler say 45-year-old Barry Porter Griffith of Flint pleaded guilty Wednesday to possession of child pornography. He was sentenced to 42 months in prison.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice network engineers in October 2012 detected significant bandwidth being used to view pornography. Officials traced the usage to Griffith's computer and then remotely viewed websites that he was accessing from his office.

Griffith, when confronted by law officers, surrendered two personal computers that also contained child pornography images.